Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for July 14, 2010

Devonshade, I don’t understand. What makes YOU think they are “lower class”??

I know lots …well, a couple of millionaires, and college presidents who mess up the English language. I also know several people who could buy me twice & not notice it who wouldn’t know a participle if they ate one on a hot day.

Where’s Joe? We started on the wrong foot.

Summary Justice! But don’t let your guard down around Red Tommy…! He’s just plain mean, that one.

I is a poor folk and I ain’t insulted no how. It’s, um, just a cartoon…

That being said, I think Gertie, if not smart, is brave.

If you don’t like the hillbilly dialect, you could thank your dear, departed St. Moore, who began the “southernization” of this strip. I agree he was a great artist and good writer, but I’ve never been a fan of that change..

devonshade…ahh now it is obvious, you have way too much time on your hands and are an embittered person who must take his frustrations out on someone. Mr. Scancarelli is your scape goat.

More’s the pity

Devonshade: You are certainly not the only one among us who has been laid off. (Make that 1 yr, 10 months ago for me) You don’t find the rest of us being so constantly negative. Scancarelli is not a hack. His artwork is brilliant for a ‘toon. His stories, for the most part, are written as opportunities for one-liner jokes and puns, with a plot line to tie it together. That’s almost the definition of a comic strip. Take a good look at Dick Tracy. Now, THERE’S a hack.

Imagine a writer who exaggerated faults and stereotyped class divisions? What would you call that hack? William Shakespeare?

did she call the police yet?

To quote my elders, I have never “heard” so much butchering of the english language in all my borne days! Now if that not considered “lower class”, then you tell me what is! I take that back…these aren’t lower class, just pea-brained morons!

Devonshade, Like I had told you before, I will help a homeless person, IF that person has truthfully tried to find work and can’t find not even a part time job. My son right now, is working at a job through a temp agency. Where they offer no benefits, NOTHING. They sent him to a FULL TIME job, just to get there and find out that it is only a 20 hr a week job. He has only gotten temp jobs, right after he got laid off shortly before Bush left office. So yes, I’m helping him and if I see a homeless person asking for a cup of coffee, I will take them in to a coffee shop and buy them a cup of coffee. But calling Jim Scancarelli a hack, is completely uncalled for. His art is fantastic, and most of his plots are great! Just because he gives them a hillbilly accent, or anyone that has a hillbilly accent does not make them poor or hoodlums.

Devonshade has proven to be just another Troll.

Jim’s art is fantastic, isn’t it. JanCinVV said some of the most sensible things I’ve read here in awhile, and without getting political, I will agree with Hector that the constant insulting of Mr. Scancarelli in his own house is mean-spirited and simply inaccurate– and I also think it’s cowardly.

He’s a great cartoonist, coming up on 25 years as steward of the strip. King to Perry and Moore to Scancarelli… it’s still Gasoline Alley to me, and I’m happy to be able to read it every day. At the rate the world is changing, that is a privilege I’ll not take for granted. Jim still draws it in India ink on bristol board, and those of us lucky enough to have purchased his original artwork on the open market know that the art as drawn is even better than the art as printed.

The trolls will rant their repetitive rants and explain their “noble” reasons and motives for viciously denigrating and hurling libelous accusations at the man who labors lovingly over the strip. They’ll defend their abstract principles, or the past as they recall it (pre-1986, I suppose). They’ll protest the actions of cartoon characters toward other characters. They’ll high-mindedly weigh the political correctness of innocent humor, the hermeneutics of light escapist fiction. But all the while they see nothing rude (or pitiful) in insulting a fine cartoonist whose talent they can only envy, and whose hard work every day they probably can’t imagine. And without the soapbox that is placed here near this treasure of a comic strip, no one would hear their trollish voices at all.

Thank you, Jim, for keeping Gasoline Alley going strong for the fans!

Am I the only one who just enjoys the comic?

No, oldschool51, I am sure that lots of us enjoy the comic. However, I also enjoy the “wordy by play” of my fellow readers! It is somethimes boring and repetitive, but usually , very entertaining. I appreciate all of the different opinions. I MISS YOU, JOE-ALLEN DOTY! I’m sorry to read of your trouble, Devonshade. My son just found a job after being laid off for about 9 months. I know it’s hard!

Thank you Axe Grinder. You saved me some time. I could not have said it better myself.

I work pt in an office position. I see the ones higher in status moving up, I have not. I also today as in the past have gone to job fairs, which have been a total waste of time as others before me have poured in some with out results. I only met one man who had a promise of a job. I left empty handed. And not enough money for a higher education.